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In the 15th century, carriages were made lighter and needed only one horse to haul the carriage. This carriage was designed and innovated in Hungary.
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Jacques De Vancanson made a clock work powered
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William Murdoch built a working model of a steam carriage in Redruth, England
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In England, where the term seems to have originated late in the 18th century, the buggy held only one person and commonly had two wheels.
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The first electric underground trains run in London
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By the early 1910s, the number of automobiles had surpassed the number of buggies, but their use continued well into the 1920s in out of the way places.
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During the 1930s, unemployment due to the Great Depression and high gasoline prices meant many car owners in the U.S. and Canada could no longer afford to drive. The Bennett buggy (in Canada) or Hoover wagon (in the U.S.) was an automobile converted to be pulled by horses.
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A Hoover cart is an automobile that was built in the 1930s. It had its front removed and mounted to a mule or a horse. People who used it could not afford gasoline for their motor cars. It was named after President Hoover. The great depression was from approximately 1929-1939.
